The most valuable features for us are reliability and performance. Our system is used for the Lufthansa flight scheduling system and the real-time plane diverting system. The systems need to be robust enough to stay up to date. It's about having robust, trustworthy solutions that people can rely on.

The deployment of our solution across a number of servers using Ingres .NET has meant that we can protect the database server behind a highly secure firewall and deploy the front end solutions on a normal web server. The User is never exposed to any configurations or logins other than their own initial identification.

The SQL capability is consistent across all platforms. This means that we can code into our PHP functions to manage the database so that the users can be generally self-sufficient and requiring DB support only rarely.